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11:17 16.08.2024 •
Germany liberal leaders – foreign minister Annalena Baerbock and minister of economics Robert Habeck.
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The United States and Germany are the main providers of military supplies to Israel and Ukraine, where Germany’s legacy political parties are irrevocably invested in its corrupt government, and a war that cannot be won, but could well be lost. This and its neo-liberal dogma are resulting in a rapid decline in the support of Germany’s authoritarian liberal political class, writes Mathew D. Rose, an investigative journalist, an editor of ‘Brave New Europe’.
On 24 June this year Germany’s Foreign Minister and creator of “Feminist Foreign Policy”, Annalena Baerbock, held a speech in Tel Aviv in which she declared: “Israel’s greatest strength and its best defence is its humanity, its commitment to democratic values, international law and human rights. Over the last nine months, it has been the incredible resilience and humanity of the people of Israel that has impressed me so much.”
This delusional assertion was made a full six months after the International Court of Justice declared that there is a plausible case that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians (Germany is the only nation supporting Israel’s case against this decision) and less than a month before the same ICJ declared that Israel’s 57-year occupation and settlement of the West Bank and East Jerusalem are unlawful, that both must end, that settlements must be evacuated, and that Palestinians, denied their inalienable right to self-determination, must be compensated for their losses, and allowed to return to their lands.
As Germany becomes increasingly bogged down politically and financially in both wars and at the same time Germany’s economy declines, the authoritarian liberals are rapidly losing their political legitimacy. The recent EU parliamentary elections demonstrated this. All the mainstream parties – Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, Liberals (FDP), and Greens (this most fanatical party and representative of German middle class fascism lost half its votes) – together obtained only round 60 percent of the votes. When you consider the fact that just 50% of German citizens voted, not only does that mean that only one third of Germans voted for these mainstream parties, but that there were close to twice as many non-voters as supporters of these legacy authoritarian liberal parties. One third of the electorate is not a mandate nor representative of a nation.
In September there will be elections in three states in the Eastern part of the Germany. Here the pro-genocide authoritarian liberals are especially discredited. It is conceivable that the AfD and BSW will be the two strongest parties in two of these states. It is also well possible that the legacy parties together will not receive half the seats up for election in all three states, the Liberals (FDP) and Greens probably receiving none; the Social Democrats could share the same fate in two states. In other words, the decay of authoritarian liberalism is gaining momentum as is the panic of this political elite.
On 16 July the Social Democrat Interior Minister closed down a far-right magazine called “Compact”. This is a serious interference with freedom of the press, regardless of what you think about the magazine, and sets a dangerous precedent. The government knew this and used a legal trick to get around laws protecting the freedom of the press. The arbitrary interpretation of laws is a practice we are increasingly witnessing not only in Germany, but among the political class in Europe and especially in the EU itself as a tool for self-preservation of the authoritarian liberal political elite. This is the “rule based order” that has been the basis of Western dominance abroad and at and repression at home by cancelling the rule of law.
Some members of the mainstream political parties, especially the Greens, are calling for a ban of the AfD. The decision by the current government (Social Democrats, Greens, and Liberals) in banning a medium is a first step in this direction, With all three parties steering toward political oblivion, fanaticism and desperation are on the rise. That would however mean banning the second strongest party in Germany, which would be nothing less than a putsch, but as we know so well from history, fanatical Germans know no limits.
The September election could catalyse this panic further.
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